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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAI, JULY 28, 1937.

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FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1937.

NINE-POWER

TREATY POINTS

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The five judges on the banch of a courtroom in a country of South-Eastern Europe."

Something Remarkable is Happening

OMETHING very remark- able is happening in a London theatre.

The curtain falls on a play by an American author--- Judgment Day." And as I falls there comes from the packed theatre a demonstration against dictatorship, a spontan- eous challenge to tyranny. a great and moving support for the principles of liberty and democracy which have suffered so heavy a defeat over, so large a part of the world.

It begins as a tumultuous hand- clapping that grows and awells an changes into such cheering as eur hears only when the deepest clo tions are stirred.

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That la tribute to a great play. But it is much more than that.

It is a tribute to nit those who have suffered torture and prisonment

death under tyranny, to all who at this montent suffer from these things under th harsh dictatorship of those coun- tries which have turned their bucks on freedom.

I

HAVE seen many great demonstrations of pab-

He feeling. I have s few more stirring, more sigh fl- more heartening than this, the response of an ordin-

What are the precise im plications of the Nine-Power cunt, Treaty, guaranteeing the terri-ary London theatre audience to torial and political integrity of the cry with which the play close a China, so far as the signatories and which seems to echo ou

concerned? This point was raised in the House Nan Maryska, of Commons on Wednesday, when a Labour member put for-

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rough the theatre above the therent and even when the chrer- as uver- Downy with tyranny. Long Live the People."

Many men have diel. besten and broken, but undefeated with some such cry on their lips during the years which have seen Hurry and democracy perish in country after country in Europe,

One remembers then some of them friends and comrades, some of them men of international re- pule, the great majority members only of the anonymous army of the persecuted, as one sees this play.

remember

It is necessary to them if we, who still hold fast to democracy, are not to forget how grave a responsibility is ours for Its preservation since. In its de- feat fes the death of liberty und of civibration.

And it is because it brings to the mind so vividly and with a truth so moving und so clear just what happens when a dictator rules, that this play should be seen or read by as many people as possible.

I have both seen it and read it.

It is one of the few plays that

'come over" in the printed page no less vividly and with an impact Do less disturbing and exhilar- ating than on the stage.

Elmer Rice, the author, has written other fine plays. One re- members Street Scene and

The Adding Machine."

But he has written nothing so

as this.

moving, so profoundly impressive,

It is a social document that plerees complacency like a sword--

social document presented—it is his own word-in the form of a "melodrama" shot with laughter and pity and a rising excitement. I said at the beginning of this article that something rather re- markable has been happening in

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FRANCIS WILLIAMS

the Strand Theatre, where it is being performed, one sees an in- tense and enthusiastic concentra- tlon.

A political subject has been brought alive. And brought alive, not only to a perhaps politically contelous gallery and pit, but to the stails and the circle,

There are many, no doubt, who have in it a painful and personal interest.

Germun and Italian exiles who recogale in a way whose polg- British observer can nancy no equal the truth of the pleture and think of what they have es- caped and of what so many of their friends have suffered.

For the piny is the story of a political trial in a country ruled by a dictator.

of

Three people, a woman and two men, are on trial for their lives -

with charged

the attempted assassination

the Minister- President,

The woman is the wife of the leader of the outlawed People's Party..himself already sentenced to death. One mas is his lieuten- nt, the other who actually fired the shota poor drugged creature who sits halt stupefled, hardly com- prehending a word of what is said.

ND as the trial pro- ceeds one sees how the charge against the tenders of the People's Party has been framed how the poor sub- human who actually fired has been used as a duge, not of their Party. but of the Government Itachi,

The frame-up is so obvious as to bc scarcely concealed RI all. Scarcely concealed because in the eyes of the prosecuting counsel and of the majority of the judges, the truth or untruth of the charge does not matter.

All that matters is that Lydia, the wife of Alexander Kuman. leader of the People's Party, and Khitov, his friend, are "Enemies of the State,'

The forms of justice are maintained though with n scarcely concealed threat that even they have outlived their usefulness--the spirit of justice is already dead.

Or not quite dend. It still lives in the heart of one of the Judges and remains half alive in the heart of another. What will be their verdict? Innocent or guilly? Tho evidence any one thing, the State demands another. What shall it be?

That the play. A story Lold

brillantly an entertainment that grips the interest and attra the emotion. But it is more than a play.

It is the epitome of all the

between honour struggle

anth dishonour, between justice and in- Justice, between Savagery And civilisation, which is being fought In Europe to-day and the end of which is not yet in sight.

By what shall we hold-we who face a world torn and rent with warring political philosophies" Shall we hold by truth, by justice, by tolerance, by the rule of reason and argument, or shall we lay all these aside and set up in their place an ideology of the State which can do no wrong, since its very crimes must be applauded as virtues?

Are we for berly and demo- cracy, for civilisation against all dictatorships of whatever colour, or are we prepared to sacrifice all that has been regarded as most honourable and most necessary to human progress shinply that our side shall win?

As one rends this play the Reichstag trial inevitably comes to mind. But this play is not a play about Nazi Germany alone. It is a story of the course of justice 121 Any dictatorship country. whether of the right or of the left.

And as you read it remember that at this moment more than three hundred million European people are lying under a dictator- RhtD ol one colour or др ather.

To out ol every three of the men, women and children of continent, which once was flower at world civiliso. 01921. natist to. alsy. 11 they would

preserve heir physical Freedom. accept an unremitting servility of mind to a Government which denies to them tile right o! individual oginion.

The exercise of reason and the

The "wounded" diclator in 'Judgment Day'

free expression or opinion t offences punishable by exile or ima- prisonment or death in some four- icen countries in Europe to-day.

One could duplicate the trial scene in Judgment Day "not unce, but a hundred times in the continent of Europe during the last few years. It is almost a page front history-all except the ending. Re- member that as you read it,

It is a political play, but its message is not that this party or this policy is right and that other one wrong. Ita moral is that all dictatorships all forced uni- formity of opinion-all suppres-- sion of individual conselence and. individual opinions-are wrong.

To have faith in one's opintons and in the political policies of one's party--that is A right and a proper thing. But to demand from all others a servile acquiescence- that is death to all that is most valuable in human history.

IVILISATION can flower

Conly in the soll of free-

that, we who still hold on to de- mocracy I believe "Judgment Day" will help us to remember. I belleve the "Daily that in publishing it Herald Is not only bringing to readers a remarkably good play.

I believe that it is at the some time helping forward that fight which I hold to be the most important in the world today-the fight against tyranny and dictatorship of what-

for battle ever

character-the greater and finer freedom.

A MALAYAN LEPER COLONY

A

ment, neither that Treaty nor the Kellogg Pact committed the Government in the present dis- pute, nor had any commitment arisen under the Lengue Coven- ant. By Article VII of the Treaty, the contracting parties agreed that whenever a situa-. tion arose which, in the opinion of any one of them, involved the application of the stipula- tions contained in the Treaty and rendered desirable discus- sion of such application, "there shall be full and frank com- munication between the con- It tracting parties concerned." is possible to read this article in! such a manner that it may not involve any any actual commit- ment on the signatories, but, without question, it carries a

SEA of moral obligation on the part of

glass, a brilliant sun, them to the Government for leper, sun, the dazzling sea. Conversation A

island. Not had fallen away amongst us; perhaps topees, sun-glasses. The little consumption on the those nations which are parties

steamer drew alongside the island's hundred yards away a Chinese coolie the bandstand was uppermost in our to the Treaty to confer when

string thoughts. working amongst his tiny landing-stage. Four Europeans was crises occur. China, herself, is,

disembarked. A little yellow flag beans, to all appearances a normal At the third camp we climbed a Right of broad stone steps to a lofty caught the eye; the quarantine sta- human being. of course, a signatory, and inas-

tlon this, on the far side of the island Here, for the first time, I saw pea-stone hail of classic appearance, open much as the present military

the teper camp.

nuts growing. The Indian doctor ac back and front, the length of veran- operations by Japan threaten

Through this

ellicient companying the party pulled a small dah supported on massive columns. her territorial integrity, she

quarantine camp pass hundreds of plant out of the ground, as if it were Here Boy Scouts with hats, poles, potato plant, and there, at the end belts, badges, but leper Boy Scouts. would obviously welcome a "full

coolles. They are medically exainin-

All these boys were disfigured; one and frank" discussion of the

ed by Government doctors and the of strings, hung the peanuts. lepers amongst them removed

Back into the launch, grateful for little fellow's face was hard to look situation by, the other eight

treatment. Six lepers were found the shade of the red umbrella, and at,

On each side of this high ball were Powers and herself. The most

amongst the Immigrants that morn- then the second camp.

offices. laboratories. the class-rooms, We climbed the path from ing, but to the eye of the layman that appears to have been done up to,the present la some com-

these six coolies were no different shore: on the flat ground in front of Here we saw the fruit and seeds of us stood a tiny bandstand.. Suddenly, the plant from which the oil is ex- munication between Britain, the

air a tracted for the treatment of leprosy, A small, open motor launch took unexpectedly, broke on the United States and France. The

us round the island to the first of the joyous marcling tune. Perhaps be- Some lepers have been cured. three leper camps we were to visit cause it was the first of a series of We passed through a classroom; on Treaty carries a presumption

that day.

A large, red umbrella was emotional shocks, this was the most the walls bung drawings and paint- that the whole of the signatories will consult together when cir- Covenant, even though there provided for the use of the two ladies poignant moment of the whole ex- Ings done by the leper pupils. The in the party, and the scnts in the pedition for me, although later was subjects were English, but the execu- cumstances arise which threaten may be a widespread belief launch were covered with white drill. to see the cruel ravages of the disease tion was Oriental. One little paint-

The Island is densely wooded, and and witness efforts of magnificent Ing was especially China's independence. There is that Japan's actions are conny hot in the tropical sun, but round courage. We listened till the echoes credible no necessity for common agree- trary to both these instruments. the bulldings the land had been clear-died in the tree tops. The Filippino thickened fingers could fashion such ment, before the calling of any But the Nine-Power Treaty ed and gardens laid out, where flowers leader of this orchestra of lepers delicate work.

The Iny superintendent and his auch conference, to the view carries a definite implication of and shrubs grew with tropical luxu- smilingly acknowledged our applause. that China's territorial Integrity foreign consultation in crisca fenst conspicuous. The lepers them and he had dedicated it to a much- where the nature of their work culs rlance, the beautiful hibiscus not the The march was his own composition, wife Scots both-five on the Island, ia in danger; if only one nation such as that which has now Relves muke and core for these loved Malayan doctor who has sent them off almost entirely from their holds that viewwhich China arisen in North China. And the gardens, and a prize is the reward of most of his life in anti-malarial re-today, and malls arrive two or three where yesterday's paper, is read search work. obviously does-then that na-Chinese Government would be the prettiest.

times a week. tion has a right to demand well within its rights to invoke The Band Strikes Up Boy Scouts

Here is one spot where brave men: are striving to mitigate the misery consultation... The position may the provisions of the Treaty not be quite so clear under the which are germane to the pre-

of the leper's life.

F, IL. T. the League sent developments. Kellogg Pact or

a London theatre.

Not only remarkable, but enor- mously enlightening, I think. For this is essentially a political piny. Yet looking round the audience at

------To-day's Thought-

NOTHING is so easy but it

becomes dificult dong with reluctance.

when

TERENCE.

from their fellows

clean,

for

There are vegetable gardens too.

Back to the launch, the red um- The lepers grow vegetables, and sell brella, the while drill, the burning

appealing. In-

that those poor,

disease-

H